Over 60 tornadoes ripped through northern Alabama in the Spring of 2011 and were followed by the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Agency (FEMA) being deployed to assist in Long-Term Community Recovery. As part of the long-term recovery process, city planners were brought in to assist the damaged communities in rebuilding in ways that best optimize the community’s desires and resources. I was contracted, along with one other designer, to combine the photos, plan information, and city plan drawings into comprehensive plan books for nine communities in very short order. Below is a sampling of pages from Hackleburg, Alabama’s book: